{"id":2207,"date":"2026-03-07T12:36:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T12:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=2207"},"modified":"2026-03-07T12:36:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T12:36:04","slug":"the-film-the-bbc-wouldnt-air-mother-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=2207","title":{"rendered":"The Film the BBC Wouldn\u2019t Air \u2013 Mother Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1190631\">\n<article class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div class=\"hero is-image \">\n\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-caption\">A hospital orderly rests after finishing work in a surgical operating theater at Nasser Medical Complex in the Gaza Strip in August.<\/span><span class=\"media-credit\">AFP\/Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mj-text-cta\">Get your news from a source that\u2019s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/newsletters\/?mj_oac=Article_Top_No_Oligarchs\" data-ga-category=\"TopOfArticle\" data-ga-label=\"NewsletterPromoCovid\" data-ga-action=\"click|https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/newsletters\/?mj_oac=Article_Top_Support\">Sign up for the free <em>Mother Jones Daily<\/em>.<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"section-lead\">Two veteran journalists<\/span> set out to document Israel\u2019s destruction of Gaza\u2019s health care system: hospitals attacked, medical workers killed, doctors detained and held for long periods without criminal charges. The BBC had commissioned the film.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But their Palestinian sources in Gaza and the West Bank were skeptical.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe really had to try and persuade them\u2026to talk to us because they didn\u2019t\u2014and don\u2019t\u2014trust the BBC,\u201d says reporter Ramita Navai.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><noscript>Subscribe to <em>Mother Jones<\/em> podcasts on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/artist\/mother-jones\/1388496226\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> or your favorite podcast app.<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>One source doubted the BBC would air the film. \u201cAnd I was quite shocked he felt that way,\u201d says reporter Ben de Pear. \u201cBut actually, he was 100 percent right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the last couple of years, big media organizations have been criticized\u2014from the left and the right\u2014about their coverage of the war in Gaza. But it\u2019s rare to get the chance to peel back the curtain to see what exactly was happening inside one of those organizations to learn whether political pressure played a role in journalistic decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>This week on <em>Reveal<\/em>, we\u2019re partnering with the KCRW podcast <em>Question Everything<\/em> to tell the story of a film the BBC wouldn\u2019t air and what it says about the future of journalism.<\/p>\n<\/article><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2026\/03\/question-everything-bbc-documentary-gaza-health-care\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hospital orderly rests after finishing work in a surgical operating theater at Nasser Medical Complex in the Gaza Strip in August.AFP\/Getty Get your news from a source that\u2019s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. 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